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Popular Science, Dogmatic Theology, Mountain Life
  • 06/04/13--05:08: How to Write a Blog Post (chan 16251898)

    • I have a piece up at Catholic Sistas today that I’ve wanted to write for a long time. Want some tips for writing? These are some things I’ve learned along the way from all the pieces I’ve read, written, edited, and promoted. I’ll probably never write a book, or at least I don’t think I [...]

    Getting scooped is painful in the scientific community. It’s what they call it when, after years of research and analysis, an author discovers days before his paper’s publication that someone else has already beaten him to the punch. It means coming in second, all that hard work for naught, no one remembers number two. Research [...]

    I have often wondered about my desire for science when I wasn’t religious, and I think it was an un-admitted dissatisfaction with relativism. When I had no faith in anything beyond myself, sure, it was fun for a while. I answered to no one unless I wanted to answer to someone for my own purposes. [...]

    I’m taking a little break for the weekend to do some cleaning. It’s been raining for two days, and these pictures show the mudslide in my kitchen. Just like a good blogging mommy, I got my daughter to take a break from cleaning the toy room (a tornado hit that) to come take a picture [...]

    I know I said I was taking the weekend off, but the muddy floors are cleaned and I was working on a theology course assignment about correcting errancy just now. Since it is pretty much the guiding principle behind my efforts at communication, I thought I’d share it. (As to the clean floors, my daughter [...]

  • 06/11/13--09:13: The Gift of the Sphragis (chan 16251898)

    • Catholic Free Press I was introduced to this word “sphragis” while studying the history of liturgy. The early Church Fathers called the ancient tradition of the imposition of the sign of the Cross on the forehead of the candidate at Baptism the “rite of the sphragis.” St. Basil wrote in the fourth century that it [...]

    I know that sounds harsh, so first let me position myself as a commentator on philosophy. Like I said before, I studied Catholic theology, mostly dogma and doctrinal development, for the last three years, and I know a little bit about science. I am not a philosopher, but I read some philosophy along the way, [...]

    When I wrote “What If I Denied the Existence of Science?” I was pointing out a contradiction. Science itself relies on abstraction, it is a body of knowledge not a material thing. It cannot walk right up to you and say “Howdy!” Well it turns out people do question the existence of another body of [...]

  • 06/17/13--05:56: What is Understanding? (chan 16251898)

    • I never use that word without meaning it. Have a beautiful day!

    Catholic Free Press As a little girl I memorized Psalm 23 and I remember longing for those things. “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul.” I thought it must be about Heaven, the [...]